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As Elvis Costello/Declan MacManus/Napoleon Dynamite (whoever) settles into his second great productive period, even his throwaways shed vision. On side one he puts together a Motown-inflected version of “Blue Chair” from Blood and Chocolate (credited to the Coward Brothers and featuring jack of all parades T-Bone Wolk in the James Jamerson role) and “Shoes Without Heels,” a subdued, deathly sad honky-tonk ballad recorded during the King of America sessions. On side two he pairs the King of America version of “American Without Tears” with a solo-overdub “Twilight Version,” in which he follows the doomed transatlantic couple from the first song to each of the pair’s separate sordid fates. “Just like me, she found out what true love is about,” MacManus sighs as he leaves them, and that ambiguity hangs like a noose. | As Elvis Costello/Declan MacManus/Napoleon Dynamite (whoever) settles into his second great productive period, even his throwaways shed vision. On side one he puts together a Motown-inflected version of “Blue Chair” from ''Blood and Chocolate'' (credited to the Coward Brothers and featuring jack of all parades T-Bone Wolk in the James Jamerson role) and “Shoes Without Heels,” a subdued, deathly sad honky-tonk ballad recorded during the ''King of America'' sessions. On side two he pairs the ''King of America'' version of “American Without Tears” with a solo-overdub “Twilight Version,” in which he follows the doomed transatlantic couple from the first song to each of the pair’s separate sordid fates. “Just like me, she found out what true love is about,” MacManus sighs as he leaves them, and that ambiguity hangs like a noose. | ||
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{{tags}}[[The Costello Show]] {{-}} [[Blue Chair]] {{-}} [[Demon]] {{-}} [[Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus|Declan MacManus]] {{-}} [[Napoleon Dynamite]] {{-}} [[Blood & Chocolate]] {{-}} [[The Coward Brothers]] {{-}} [[T-Bone Wolk]] {{-}} [[Shoes Without Heels]] {{-}} [[King Of America]] {{-}} [[American Without Tears]] {{-}} [[American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight Version)|American Without Tears (Twilight Version)]] | {{tags}}[[The Costello Show]] {{-}} [[Blue Chair]] {{-}} [[Demon]] {{-}} [[Declan Patrick Aloysius MacManus|Declan MacManus]] {{-}} [[Napoleon Dynamite]] {{-}} [[Blood & Chocolate]] {{-}} [[The Coward Brothers]] {{-}} [[T-Bone Wolk]] {{-}} [[Shoes Without Heels]] {{-}} [[King Of America]] {{-}} [[American Without Tears]] {{-}} [[American Without Tears No. 2 (Twilight Version)|American Without Tears (Twilight Version)]] | ||
